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Oral history transcript, John H. Crooker, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • fortunate to obtain the names of two men, one outstanding liberal, Mr. Jesse Andrews, and one outstanding conservative, Mr. J. S. Abercrombie, and they agreed to serve with each other as the senior co-chairmen in this county. F: That's quite a combination
Oral history transcript, Samuel T. Williams, interview 2 (II), 3/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • and his staff. G: I'll ask a question about him a little later, but we can get into that. So you felt that relationships were what was critical? H: Yes. G: In 1960. \
Oral history transcript, Alan L. Dean, interview 3 (III), 4/3/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, Estelle Harbin, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in there and sat on the steps. Mr. Hoover was the president; Mr. Garner was the speaker of the House, and there were some descendants there of George and Mary Washington. This was the twenty-second of February, honoring Washington's birthday. We just sat
Oral history transcript, Lister Hill, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • time, it was a special election, and I left in January. I was elected in '38. The truth of the business is my wife and I that summer of '37 went with General John J. Pershing and the Battle Monuments Commission over to France and Belgium, England
Oral history transcript, Merrell F. "Pop" Small, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to, but she went along, of course, and, by golly, he defeated Olson [by] 330,000 votes that year, and then, of course, he ran for the third time in 1952. But he came up here looked upon as a Herbert Hoover Republican. He had a man on his staff named [William T
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 2 (II), 10/31/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with each other, backbiting and so forth, and he went down chronologically from Wilson to Coolidge to Harding to Hoover to Roosevelt to Truman; I don't guess Truman had a vice president, but he had problems with Henry Wallace in the cabinet, whom he finally
Oral history transcript, Roger Blough, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of Lyndon Johnson is that, of all Presidents that I've known since Hoover, he understood the business problems better than anyone of the other Presidents. And I'm including President Roosevelt, President Truman, President Eisenhower, and President Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Melville Bell Grosvenor, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • there at Harry Byrd's I mentioned--I think I mentioned it that day when I saw him--sometime when he was making one of these trips we would love to have an article about his trip because Vie thought it was real geography and human interest said,] you t'~~hy, j
Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 3 (III), 2/13/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • or four, he said, "You, you, you, and you come with me. The rest of you go with Bird," as he called her. "The rest of you" was, of course, my wife. (Laughter) The driver of the other car was J. C. Kellam. So [with] J. C. Kellam driving, Lady Bird and my
Oral history transcript, Lawson B. Knott, Jr., interview 1 (I), 4/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : Yes, reactivate it. G: This was Congressman [John J.] Rooneyls district, I guess. K: I'm not sure whose district, but in any event it was not until 1967 that GSA got into the picture at all. It was a massive property. After we went through
Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • in these mes sages, so in that respect they are of great and, oost significantly, of enduring significance from year to year. They are in effect a dynamic, and you were very conscious of that when you ~.J"ere preparing the message. So some man, or men
Oral history transcript, Oscar L. Chapman, interview 1 (I), 8/15/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to January 20. That was to avoid the lame duck session we always had in between there. A lot of politics was carried on during that time. F: Well, we nearly wrecked the country there, you know, in 1932, before Hoover could get out and Roosevelt could get
Oral history transcript, Frederick C. Belen, interview 1 (I), 11/7/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • , Mr . Thornberry and Mr . Young both had served on the Post Office and Civil Service Committee while I was Chief Counsel . And I said, "With respect to the ability to do the job," you know that there was a conflict between Mr . 1961-63) and Bill (J
Oral history transcript, Sidney A. Saperstein, interview 1 (I), 5/26/1986, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • drafted this legislation and went up to Bulwinkle's subcommittee and had to make modifications. And I think Bulwinkle left; I think he was defeated or he didn't come back, and a fellow by the name of [J.] Percy [Priest] became chairman
Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • recollections from the President or from other people of his feelings about the policies of Mr. Hoover? R: No, I don’t. I don’t remember. He has made some statements in speeches that I would personally have been happier had they not been said. For example, I
  • impressions of Hoover; LBJ’s attitude toward public service
Oral history transcript, Elmer Graham, interview 1 (I), 4/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • really know. I guess, as I recall the Populist attitudes, he was more of a Populist. He believed that the United States should take a leading part in the world ... I: In domestic affairs, did he make fun of Coolidge and Hoover as too con­ servative
Oral history transcript, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, interview 1 (I), 11/12/68, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • with the LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 10 Mr. Hoover simply didn't strike
Oral history transcript, Floyd E. Dominy, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ~ power revenues, and then you could put it through the Hoover, Parker, and Davis turbines and get some more of it back; and it's interesting to note that you'd pump it ,.,rith lm..rer cost energy than you'd get for the energy you made on the other might
Oral history transcript, David Dubinsky, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: DAVID DUBINSKY INTERVIEWER: PAIGE MULHOLLAN PLACE: Mr. Dubinsky's office, 201 West 52nd Street, New York City Tape 1 of 1 (Interview begins abruptly.) M: . . . Roosevelt. D: Hoover--Republicans too. M: Oh, Republicans too, yes! D
Oral history transcript, Dr. Ralph K. Huitt, interview 3 (III), 11/29/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -- 11 looked like what was the best source of ideas was the Hoover Commission Report, in which they had added up what each of these savings that they recommended would come to. They had a total for it. Well, Proxmire wanted to put all these bills
Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 2 (II), 2/11/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 1 (I), 8/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 9 first move in an attempt to hold down some of these foreign costs that we were incurring as a government. F: You served on the Hoover Commission in there too. B· I did some
  • Biographical information; House Banking and Currency Commission; Sam Rayburn; Inter-American Bank; International Development Association; Hoover Commission; campaigns for Congress; Kennedy appointment to the Treasury; Chairman of the FDIC; May 1965
Oral history transcript, Perle Mesta, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • they all mixed up? M: I went to both. F: Have you been to White House parties under what Presidents? M: Hoover. F: Roosevelt. M: Roosevelt. F: Then Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy-- M: Truma~ F: Did you ever go under Kennedy? M: No. F: You
Oral history transcript, Ewing Hass, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -- 8 the--I can't think of the name right now, but when the Hoover Dam legislation was passed, there were either two or three occasions when the Senate voted to specifically omit the 160-acre limitation because the growers down there had built a canal
Oral history transcript, Emanuel Celler, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • it approached from the Truman and Johnson side of the railroad tracks because I think there's more sincerity in it. He wasn't austere and parsimonious like Coolidge or anything like that. He wasn't stiff and a bit pecksniffian like Hoover. Of course
Oral history transcript, Ernest Cuneo, interview 1 (I), 9/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • down--Corcoran had come down under Hoover--and the Harvard Law School had an excellent brotherhood by which people were recommended for positions. Frankfurter delegated this to Corcoran for the most part, and a regular assembly line was put up by which
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 1 (I), 9/9/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to Washington, didn't quite know what I wanted to do, and thought I wanted to leave Washington. I sat around pretty much for a year or so doing very little, except that I became a member of the Hoover Commission. I was appointed by Speaker Rayburn. I think
Oral history transcript, Thruston Morton, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . Then at seven o'clock, Herbert Hoover, Jr., who was then Under Secretary of State, would come down, and I would have thrown away most of it, and then we'd go through it together. At 7:30 the Vice-President, Mr. Nixon-- the then-Vice President--Mr. Nixon would
  • Biographical information; assessment of LBJ in House and Senate; Geneva Summit Conference; Herbert Hoover, Jr.; Nixon; Senator Earle Clements; LBJ’s heart attack; LBJ’s support of Eisenhower’s policies; nomination of Lewis Strauss and Abe Fortas
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • last month of the Hoover Administration, as part of the staff of an administrative agency called the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, which was set up on a bipartisan basis mainly to keep the banks from collapsing with the help of government loans
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 3 (III), 3/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the project for the National Park Service. He did a great job" too. We scheduled the dedication of the garden for a fall day in 1964; however, two days before the event, former President Hoover died. For this reason, Mrs. Johnson concluded it would
Oral history transcript, Edward P. Cliff, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, William Cochrane, interview 1 (I), 3/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -- 19 down there. He beat [inaudible] [Furnifold] Simmons in 1930. Simmons was president pro-tem of the Senate. He had been up here for thirty years, but in 1928 he joined Bishop Cannon of the Methodist Church and others in supporting Herbert Hoover
Oral history transcript, Gould Lincoln, interview 1 (I), 9/28/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • have-- Taft, Wilson, Hoover, Coolidge-- L: Well, Woodrow Wilson, as I said in this piece, he was the first man who really had a press conference as of today. P: In other words, a press conference in calling the people in-- the news media in? L
Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh Levinson -- I -- 7 You recall that the Department of Transportation was seriously proposed back in the thirties and received added impetus through the Hoover Commission and by President Eisenhower. It wasn't until 1965 that, many years
Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , it was completely unworkable . poor compromise . Like so many compromises, it was a That office was set up in 1950 as a result of, I guess the key item was the task force report to the Hoover Commission on transportation, which as I recall, I'm not sure about
Oral history transcript, Richard M. Scammon, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
Oral history transcript, Wright Patman, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Corporation. You take, for instance, I was on the floor of the House when Herbert Hoover sent up a message mimeographed, saying, "We must have a Reconstruction Finance Corporation for the banks, railroads, and insurance companies." LaGuardia of New York
Oral history transcript, Fleur Cowles, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • that when Truman became president overnight, Mr. Meyer went quickly to suggest to him that the very first job he should consider was to feed Europe - his first job. He also suggested that President Truman invite President [Herbert] Hoover to come back
Oral history transcript, Thomas W. Fletcher, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • this idea of program budget come from? Did you bring this with you? F: Well, no, the whole concept of program budgeting goes back many years. the Hoover Commission started it back in the late '40s. agencies picked it up. Actually A number of the federal